This week in Indiegogo crowd-funding news, a group of Batman fans is currently trying to raise between $30,000 and $90,000 to produce The Dark Knight Legacy, an unofficial sequel to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises that would take place one year after Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle left Gotham City for a little R&R in Europe. In Legacy, Gotham is being “protected” from villains like the Penguin and the Ventriloquist by the Red Hood, who, unlike Batman, actually kills his targets.

Catching up where Rises left off, John ”Robin” Blake has fulfilled his own superhero destiny as Nightwing, and he sets out to help the police put an end to Red Hood’s counterproductive crime fighting. Director Brett Register and his team put together a 7-minute clip of what fans can expect if they reach their Indiegogo goal, and it’s ambitious if nothing else.

Not if it’s New 52 Red Hood- he’s Jason Todd these days. I’m guessing they’re going that way, although how they’ll make it work without Todd’s resentment at being replaced as Robin, I’m not quite sure.

Speaking of Jason Todds, remember that stupid click-bait rumor about Beiber-Robin from a couple days ago? GODDAMN would I love to see him get beaten half to death with a crowbar and then blown into an unrecognizable mess.

I get it limited budget but its just so hammy, not even the cartoon series got that hammy. what with the penguin too? that was the worst choice. besides i think the riddler would fit here and not the red hood unless bruce had a robin already.

FULL DISCLOSURE: a friend of mine is in this – one of the bad guys that try to hold up the first group of bad guys.

I didn’t think it was /that/ bad. There were some weird transitions, and the sound production wasn’t that great; but the part that really takes me out of the movie (which is applicable to the Nolan films, too) is the pretty terrible exchange between Nightwing and the female cop at the end of the thing. Other than that, it’s not bad. I’ve seen a lot worse.

Not bad, but why did he even knock out the male cop just to have him wake up minutes into his conversation with the female cop? These minor lapses in logic really peeve me, but I guess its right up The Dark Knight Rises’ alley so its probably fine,

I’m not going to shit all over this, because a) it was a free trailer for something that’s very likely going to be free to watch. and b), as my ex-girlfriends can attest, it’s hard to make things feel right with virtually no budget and very little manpower.
On a big production like Nolan’s, there’s enough money to go around to hire people for all of the details, people who are highly specialized in highly specific jobs to make shit look perfect. On a fan project like this one everyone’s probably doing a little bit of everything and learning by doing. So, yeah, not going to bitch about it – BUT I can guarantee that they will get into legal shenanigans once they try to make any money off of this. And perhaps even if they don’t. Hollywood is not exactly known for being reasonable when it comes to IPs.

This is a decent fan-made trailer (hey, at least they kind of know how to hold the camera), but it’s not good if you’re going for the “unofficial sequel” route. Ventriloquist and Penquin are very firmly outside the realm of Nolan’s Batman, and unless you rewrite Red Hood’s entire backstory, so is he. It’s decent as its own thing, as far as fan-made things go, so the acting and choreography kind of get a pass here.